Carla Jungquist, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN

Adult/Gerontology Interim Program Coordinator; Associate Professor

My research program is driven to promote safe and effective pain management. Specifically, my research is about the interdependent relationship among pain, sleep and opioids.

Carla Jungquist has been a nurse for 30 years. She is a family nurse practitioner who earned her PhD in Health Practice Research from the Univeristy of Rochester. Her research interests are in the interaction of pain and sleep, especially in the arena of delivery of CBT-I and the neural basis for the interaction. Her post-doctoral work at the University of Rochester included coursework in cognitive sciences and neuroimaging, as well as hands-on training in functional imaging procedures and analysis.

Jungquist has a clinical practice at the Thompson Health Sleep Disorders Center, which evaluates and treats patients for sleep disorders. She has over 10 years of experience in diagnosing and treating patients with chronic pain conditions and is an expert in the delivery of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. Jungquist has co-authored a book, "Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia: Session by session treatment manual," which has been published in English and Spanish, and is pending in Korean, Chinese and Italian.

She currently serves on the American Society for Pain Management Nursing expert consensus panel and is the lead writer for clinical practice guidelines for monitoring patients at risk of opioid induced respiratory depression.

Young Researcher in Evidenced Based Care, for abstract Do Patients withPrimary Insomnia Have a Preferred Schedule for Taking Hypnotic Medications, 2nd Annual Conference for Evidenced Based Clinical Care, 2004

Elizabeth Clinger Young Award for most exemplifying the qualities of great compassion, courage and concern for others, Presented by the faculty of University of Rochester School of Nursing, 1995

Primary Care Service Corps Scholarship, New York State Department of Health, 1993